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[Anonymous]

Does anyone have information and/or pictures of Railroad Ferry Boats, specifficaly those owned by the Western Pacific Railroad? My husband wants to build one for his layout and has not been able to find information on them.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have information and/or pictures of Railroad Ferry Boats, specifficaly those owned by the Western Pacific Railroad? My husband wants to build one for his layout and has not been able to find information on them.

[foamer4000]

Try boatnerd.com. They may have what you are looking for. You may also see if the WP has a Historical society and if the have a link to the ferries. You may just try to be creative and search the web engines. I am shure that someone has a web sight on WP ferries.
David

[foamer4000]

Try boatnerd.com. They may have what you are looking for. You may also see if the WP has a Historical society and if the have a link to the ferries. You may just try to be creative and search the web engines. I am shure that someone has a web sight on WP ferries.
David

[Anonymous]

http://calzephyr.railfan.net/wpmuseum/anreport.html I found plenty of info on WP ferries at this site.

[Anonymous]

http://calzephyr.railfan.net/wpmuseum/anreport.html I found plenty of info on WP ferries at this site.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Railroader4884

Does anyone have information and/or pictures of Railroad Ferry Boats, specifficaly those owned by the Western Pacific Railroad? My husband wants to build one for his layout and has not been able to find information on them.

Just out of curiosity, what locale is your husband modeling? There's still traces of the old WP right-of-way here in San Francisco.
-- Paul

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Railroader4884

Does anyone have information and/or pictures of Railroad Ferry Boats, specifficaly those owned by the Western Pacific Railroad? My husband wants to build one for his layout and has not been able to find information on them.

Just out of curiosity, what locale is your husband modeling? There's still traces of the old WP right-of-way here in San Francisco.
-- Paul

[Anonymous]

[8D]Theres A Rail Ferry In Prince Rupert Canada That Carrys Trains To Alaska
And One In Mobile ALA That Comes From Mexico
I Seen A Book On Santa Fe It Showed An AT&SF Tug Boat If That Helps

[Anonymous]

[8D]Theres A Rail Ferry In Prince Rupert Canada That Carrys Trains To Alaska
And One In Mobile ALA That Comes From Mexico
I Seen A Book On Santa Fe It Showed An AT&SF Tug Boat If That Helps

[locomutt]

Okay,I really didn't know that RR ferries existed that
far west. I'm familier with the Great Lakes Ferrys.
C & O,Pere Marquette.
locomutt

[locomutt]

Okay,I really didn't know that RR ferries existed that
far west. I'm familier with the Great Lakes Ferrys.
C & O,Pere Marquette.
locomutt

[Anonymous]

If you look in Walther's catalog, they have a tug assisted railroad carfloat. It seems to me if you bought the float, it would be easy to kitbash it into a self contained ferry. So long as you have the basic hull shape, it would be easy to add some limited superstructure and stack. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

If you look in Walther's catalog, they have a tug assisted railroad carfloat. It seems to me if you bought the float, it would be easy to kitbash it into a self contained ferry. So long as you have the basic hull shape, it would be easy to add some limited superstructure and stack. Good luck.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Carferries come in assorted shapes and sizes. Most Great Lakes ferries were similar to the C&O and Ann Arbor boats, but the Detroit River and St. Clair River boats were originally open-deck and self-propelled before they were converted to tug and barge operations.
The "Incan Superior" on Lake Superior was an open-deck boat with a conventional bridge and superstructure forward of the tracks on the main deck. I don't think it was meant to operate year-round.
There were carferries between Florida and Cuba prior to 1960 which were enclosed but had an appearance and design different from the Lake boats.